Westcountry to return... Maybe Posted Mon Jul 10 14:14:29 BST 2000 by johnny banana

Westcountry televisions ex owner apparently is going to try Westcountry of off Carlton apparently according to The Bullit website- don't ask the address i don't know it i just came across the website one day. Also could someboy tell me if it is true that Central & westcountry are going to return & if so when

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Posted By Slightly_outrageous on Mon Jul 10 18:14:08 BST 2000:

...it's been far better since carlton took over..

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Posted By Anonymous on Mon Jul 10 21:36:12 BST 2000:

>...it's been far better since carlton took over..

It has, but they still shouldn't have changed the name.

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Posted By Slightly_outrageous on Tue Jul 11 18:57:38 BST 2000:

i'm not really bothered about the name...neither here nor there...

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Posted By Chris on Tue Jul 11 20:31:57 BST 2000:

>>...it's been far better since carlton took over..

Has it? why? what has changed apart from a few different idents here and there? And that the anno now says "Serving the westcountry - your watching Carlton"?!?!?!?

There is very little difference in the output!!!

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Posted By Bods on Wed Jul 12 12:10:08 BST 2000:

>>>...it's been far better since carlton took over..
>
>Has it? why? what has changed apart from a few different idents here and there? And that the anno now says "Serving the westcountry - your watching Carlton"?!?!?!?

Very reminiscent of "You're watching Tyne Tees Television broadcasting on Channel 3 in the North East".

Meaningless statement really.

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Posted By Jase on Wed Jul 12 15:50:15 BST 2000:

...and look what happened to them... the only reason C3NE lasted as long as it did was that Granada took a while to gobble up YTV...

Ironically I think that what Carlton have done to Central and Westy is the best thing that could have happened. Carlton will be forced into an embarrasing climbdown sooner or later (I have heard from my insider at TT that it will be October the first, btw) and then the idea of killing off the regional names of ITV will surely be dead and buried for at least the next 5 years. ITV must realise that a single ITV company would be far larger than Sky (particularly if they also own On-Digital), and will almost certainly be forced into splitting into a broadcaster and a programme-producer. The best way for any new "ITV plc" to avoid this is to leave regionality much as it is. I can't see it changing all that much.

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Posted By Chris on Wed Jul 12 20:17:50 BST 2000:

I have heard from my insider at TT that it will be October the first,

...i've heard it was going to be September the first to coincide with the new ident change and autumn schedules?????

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Posted By george on Wed Jul 12 20:50:36 BST 2000:

One of the original promises of digital was that there would be an ITV network (on channel 3) and new regional only services on the digital platform. Is this finally going to happen after several years of promises and mergers?

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